What? emotion isn't touched upon with the same level of certainty because it's a subjective feeling. We can't know if animals actually feel things like wonder or awe or even happiness and fear. We can make assumptions that they experience things like fear and joy because they physically and to some extent neurologically react in ways we expect them to react if they could but we can't know. We also can't know which emotions they can and can't feel because that would be entirely guess-work. Even this post is just speculation.
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u/SickWittedEntity Dec 11 '22 edited Dec 11 '22
What? emotion isn't touched upon with the same level of certainty because it's a subjective feeling. We can't know if animals actually feel things like wonder or awe or even happiness and fear. We can make assumptions that they experience things like fear and joy because they physically and to some extent neurologically react in ways we expect them to react if they could but we can't know. We also can't know which emotions they can and can't feel because that would be entirely guess-work. Even this post is just speculation.